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Word: downes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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The boy from down under went back home this fall, too late to go to the war with the first Australian contingent of airmen, but certain to be in the next one sent to the front.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former Crimson Tank Star, Bill Kendall, to Be Front Line Aviator | 10/31/1939 | See Source »

Based on the wild and woolly saga of the Family Barrymore, the play makes little attempt to disguise the famous trio, Ethel, John, and Lionel, under any pretense of fiction. Even under the pseudonym of Anthony Cavendish, John is still breaking up cameras and swatting directors; even as Julie Cavendish...

Author: By W. E. H., | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 10/31/1939 | See Source »

Any play gagged up by Kaufman takes hair-trigger handling to put it across. The production at the Copley, however, started off like a funeral procession. About the middle of the first act hope was fast fading when in whooped Erford Gage in a coon skin coat and the show...

Author: By W. E. H., | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 10/31/1939 | See Source »

Two of the three Crimson casuals, Captain Torbie Macdonald and Mose Hallett, will be ready for limited play against the Tigers on Saturday. Macdonald will probably be used as a spot runner to put more punch in the attack at crucial moments. The third injured man, Joe Koufman, is definitely...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: Varsity Backfield Revamped as Spreyer Is Sent to Tailback Job | 10/31/1939 | See Source »

The Fate of Man, finished last summer, is Wells's pre-war answer to a challenge to describe "the world as I see it and what is happening to it." Scanning the globe and the human ephemerae upon it from the point of view of a millionaire in years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pre-War | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

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